Fun with Pictures - Lets use FLICKR!

Explore Flickr
Flickr is an online photo management and sharing website that has been around since the 90’s. It is a place for social networking through images. Flickr is one of the fastest growing photo sharing sites on the web in part due to its organization tools. A popular feature of this site is the use of keyword tags to create associations and connections between photos and users of the site. In addition to photo sharing, Flickr has now partnered with Picnik, a photo editing program known for its ease of use.

For this exercise, you will need to explore Flickr. Check out the site to learn all about tags, groups, and Picnik. Don’t forget to have some fun too!
Find Out More:
Flickr tour
Flickr Tutorial
Flickr Services

Try It Out!

In this discovery exercise you have 2 options…

Explore Flickr and blog about an interesting image. In your blog, be sure to include a link to the image.

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Challenge yourself. Create your own Flickr account. It is completely free of charge and is very simple. Use your digital camera to capture a few pictures. Upload these images to your Flickr account and tag at least one of your images “MMSCL Learning” and mark it public. Then create a post in your blog describing the photo. Be sure to include the image in your post. Once you have a Flickr account, you have two options for doing this: through Flickr's blogging tool or using Blogger's photo upload feature.When uploading images, please be aware of Flickr’s community guidelines.

Let’s Go!

Here’s your chance to have some fun. Go explore Flickr. If you’re interested in looking at some other photo hosting sites, check out this list at Wikipedia.